The Morning lUln.
W. 1. LAMPTON.
If there's anything delightful
In this (lifting vale of tear" i
If there's anything that's equal
To illt-pelllng doubts and tears (
If there's anything ecstatic,
Anything to soothe our pslns,
It In during, gentle dosing,
In tin- morning whim It rains.
Al! IV sky Is amy itlmva u.
And the daylight i)n til" town
Ills- heavy with Its burden
A the ruin pomp pouring down
Nut swake, nnd still not sh-plng.
Wii ran hear tho beating rain,
In n fur off ilrnimy murmur,
1 limpping en thn window pane.
Thoughts of lny '""I "'I il"ln.
With ft hazyhalo, crown
'1 liomrlits nl night sad nil lt dreaming
Of the gray clouds hiimrltigdown.
('.iiwiiiufniiui Is fnlnlly Im-iiklng
Tlimigh I he drowsy si!1.---! .-!ial-is,
And " catch u glli.i s nf II iivimi
In ilit nn-riilug when It rn ! n-.
-IVlmll I n-Pic-
Miss Haines's Brother,
A!Hii.i.li tlu lunik n Valley City
wns culled "Tho Valley i t v Hunk"
in) uus MipioHi'it to lir n rivuti- i 1 1 t i -tntii'it.
it hum really one of tin- seven
lir.lii-'li 'mulls lii'loliniliK to M Sun
Fleiicisco Hvndicato of IiiiiiUits. I was
sitiiiily in charge of it on n iinil -rut
salary unil under heavy lintels, mid I
bud tlic credit of licin.f a iMiitulisl
whole tin credit wim ilim. Tin1 Hindi-
cnti i I'- rtcd a one-Mnry luiildiuji fiir J
jho Imnk. Tin- front of fhis wns railed I A
o tt' in tlm usual vuiv, Mini tie- rear v:i 1 !1
divided into two rooms. On
V.lls ' I
used .in n iiiviiti roiiin in which
lui-itnuH iliel 'tiiininir to tin- Imiili
was trimmi-ted nml the other whs
Iny lii'ilroom. 1 wiih u yotiiiK iniiii and
kiiitili-, anil I liml not only to net ns
president, oindiicr nml 1 1 i- dunlin
III" iluy, but. iih viitcliiiiuii nt nip,hl.
Tin- only help I hud was n liooli-
k "T, nml lie was only wit',,' iih- 1
thr. lmlf il:iys per w 'k. Tli" r-'-
maimlcr of Ih'h time was put in with u i
shipping fktu in ilic niiiiio town.
V--u will wiy tliiM was curious way
of running h Imnk, 1 it it I Clin liml
Villi II doZCIl of tlll-lll ill till' territorial
towns of to-dny conduct. -d on the
same primitive principles. I was ilo
iii(.' lmsini'HK with mi hi invh n;ro
wlu fi1 tlio fiimilv kitcluMi wiih diri'ftly
in tho nar of tho okhIi i-i-'s wimlow,
nii'l a woman who mm onkiii ilinm r
li-ft tin' mi'ut frying on thf atoo to
ooimi in iiiiiloii:hnchfi'k foi'iiii'. Along
niilf llif !mi,'liir-iirooi huI'i' wiih a trnn
lk' Ih.mI, nml on top of the miff itu lf
whh a Hinokml hum ami a kih-U of tlour.
It wan lmnking nml lioiiHi'kei piii'
comliiiifil.
It wiih figuroil that I luiil only om
lati";fi' to Biiui'i! iigtiitint. A touh
m mi mifxht ilrop in uiimo iluy ami i-f.4
thf nmzlfM of h:.-i kuiih on thf Ifil'f
of the wimlow tun! onlfr nif to jiiihs
out the inuiify in bilit. Thf Hiiff wn.t
plAiiyM h j t Iockfil, ami it whm Hflilom
tin-1 1 fvi-r hint moru than S'JDI) out
iilf. To piovfiit any fxpfrimont',
liowfVfr, I gnvo out that I hail ar
runfii ii Khotjjnn lnittory junt who ro it
win. hi i'.o tho must pooil, ami that liy
pi -hsing a Ijvlt I oonhl blow the liiuh
of any bail, luul m m throuli the front
wimlow cud clear iktokm the Mivet,
nml that ho would be dfiul at thf f ml
of bin voyage. Everybody believed
tlii-i rletion to be A fiu't, nnd Home peo
ple, were bo timid that I had to do
ViUnhieBH with them away fruin the win
dow. It wiih expressly Ktipulated in
liiv oontruet with the Hvnilieiite tlmt if
I received anything for aafe deposit it
must be ut the rink of th-j depositors,
nnd they must be so warned in ad
Vatiee. I had scarcely opened for
luthiiieKs before a doxeu peoplu in
town wanted tho UNO of our safe, An
we wi re to do uioro or less business
with them, I Could not refuse to take
temporary elmrgo of valuable papers
! nd various sums of money.
The bunk had been running about
three mnntliH, when my brothfr Tom,
who nail been telegraph operator at
llifc Uoad, 2o0 milea away, was tnu,n
ferrcil"dowu to Orand CroNsiiifr, only
ton miles uwuy, aud he si i.ed the Hi .t
favorable opportunity to come down
and see. nie. . I may tell you that Tom
wuh a meehauieul and electrical Renins,
and is now living on the royalties paid
him for hall a do:'eii good things.
When he had visited for a couple of
koui'.i, and he hud looked things over,
he biiid .
"You sloop here, and you aro loaded
or bear, but it wouldu't be any trick
at ull for u sharp man to clean you out
It won't bo another throe mouths be
fore somebody will try it ou,"
"Howl"
"Well, you'll got a caller in the
evening probably, aud the first thing
you know you'll get a rap ou llio head,
aud before you eouiu to he'll 'mve
opened tho safe aud ukippod with your
caflh. It's a nombination, I see, but
if that cnu't be hit It can be drilled bt i
blown open. I think Ml make
things a littld safer (or you."
The bank had no cellar, but as stone
! plenty ami cost only the labor of
quarrying, the wa!N acre built two
feet thick. To Rut below tho frost
lino tlin.r hud to be sunk nearly rive
feet. Thn spnci; enclosed by the walls
was flinty soil, so hnrd thHt a pick
could scarcely disturb it. Tho floor
of the bank was a little more than
four feet above tho earth. Tom was
about a week, working ut odd times,
to get things in shape. He cut out a
trap door in front of the safe, brought
dow n w ires and a battery, and when we
hud liuiNhed we hud u contrivance
which he nlomi hud power over from
(I land Crossing. My mealisof a switch
up t!n re he could spring the holt of
Hie trap door, mid the door worked on
a spring to close the opening strain. A
staple in the dour and Another in the
fninie permitted 111" nv of a peg, so
there might be no f-nrof aeeid 'tit dur
ing business hours. The understand
ing we hud win th'it Tom should drop
Hint door every hour b"teeli H o'clock
al night .m I 7 tie' next morning mid
the si-le in worked as easy as rolling
oil a In .-. I'or the first few nights tho
click of tin- bolt woke me up as the
door f,-, but after a time it failed to
petn-l rate my drowsy senses.
I hud to run my bunk to suit the
convenient1:' of tint public, and it was
tiever ens- d before 'i o'clock ill the
ev :iiug, mi 1 was often open until 7.
i ruli;, nil persons who wisln-l to
I'u- si l'.- over niellit tviuie ill be
ii ii iiltl 7. I gave each one a re
I .. .
lor 'vlnli'V-r lie deposited, but
l eh :;g ivll'ltever. M:inv and
III'! I
III tl II '
n iik-lil t!i if safe held .$2"i,'llM)
Ollt -i-li-
if Im.ik in:. in-v, and ou such
ii:'.'iu;o-n I f.-It a bit proud at the coll
li l -i' r iiel in in--.
T him !: i;i hu l In n working for a
ill-mill or more when I received II
s nri j e 'i! r in i-ve-iing at II. Hit. A
w.ii i i.i wii-, ii-i ii i nitMM a rare sight
in t i. HI. tll-eigll they were none too
I iin-ii -r.i i i. lint this visitor of mine was
I ii y i i:i- iv i n i'v l!shlv diess -d, and
- ii pr.-tty n i p-i-Ii. I'll a liuit right
! her tli it I !i i I a jmnpiiig of th li.-iirl
! nl si ;Iii of h -r, ami tint wh-n she
;t;nil I on :u I vv lis a, hi II v fluster -d
as a o iv em-'lit stealing eggs. She
w.i fi -eii .i:. I,. mis, she explained, and
Ii id . on - out in search of n brother
wlio v .is itit'-rested in a silver iiiine,
but III llii. 'l -i'io-1 ily disiipp -ui'ed. She
vvoul 1 be nt th" hot 'l for a week or
two and widi d in - to safe deposit
(J-illil ill gi'e;ilni.-'ivs. She gave me til"
Hum m M.s . Ni-ilie llililli-sto ilis. l t in
the I 'd li t. mid you will of eonr-ie
smile in i'. - nr. in t when I admit that I
hud to count that money three differ
ent times to iii ike it i-iiine out ctraight.
I of course oiVercd my asustiitice in
the Hi-areh for iiiformatiou, and of
course alio sw.-i-tly thanked nie an 1
s lid she'd emtio in again. Sin- did
come, mid when I saw her by day
light I was el. -nil gomv liegiilnr case
of love at first sight on my part, mid I
huve no mol e excuses to offer, I wrote
several letters for her, and the search
for thn misshit; brother was well be
gun. For a week Miss Haines dropped
into the bunk daily in search of news,
mid one evening during the interval I
paid her a call at the hotel. Saturday
nl'i'i inn in she sent me a note saying
she had news of her brother, and that
he would be down from the mountains
about S o'clock in the evening. Ho
should be very aii.xii-iu to go East by
the 10 o'clock train, and would I mind
if tho two came to the bunk at 8.1.".
While she had to draw out her money
it was more thiiii likely that he would
have a lufge depo it to malic. If she
hadn't mentioned this latter circum
stance 1 sin. id. 1 have taken her money
to the hotel, nnd perhaps declared my
love. Saturday evening wiMulwuysii
big evening with the Imnk, as a score
or more of outsiders wanted tho use of
the safe over Sunday. This Saturday
evening I had fully $.'U),0il0 to tuke
c.ire of. I got rid of the lust customer
by H o'clock, locked the safe door just
two minutes before Tom sprung the
trap-door, and then sat down to wait
for Miss Huiues and her brother.
Promptly on the quarter hour there
was a knock ut the door, aud I opened
it and tho pair walked in. Miss Haines
began saying how greatly obliged they
were as I turned to shut tho door, and
alio was still talking when her "dear
brother" fetched mo a clip over the
head with a saudbug, aud I knew no
moro for fifteen minutes. When I
opened iny eyes again I had been
dragged around to the safe, was
tied hand and foot aud "Mr. Haines "
aud I were alone in the bunk. Ho aat
on a chair smoking awuy as oool aa you
please and evidently waiting for me to
oome book to eartn. lie waa a man
about thirty years old, rather good
looking, but had a wicked lonk in his
eyes. - Even Wore he spoko I had fig
ured it all out and realized how t had
been played for a chump. It was just
8.30 by the eloek when my visitor said :
"Come to, have you?" Well, that's
what I was waiting for. I want you
tu open this safe."
"I ll see ytm In Halifax first. "
"doing to get mad about it, aro you?
I've got your keys, you see, but, of
course, t don't know tho combination.
You'll save in,' a leap of trouble by
working the machinery. I'll loosen
your hands, but don't tittempt any
foolishness. I've eouiu for the boodle
in the safe, and I'm g dmr to have it st
any cost.
"Mut you'll g"t it without any help
from me."
II- looked at mo a momuut with au
evil eye and then took from his pocket
a gag matin of a pine stick with u
string find to each end. He rose up
as if he meant to apply it, but changed
his mind ami sat down and said :
"HtHtnr Xidl said you were a soft
one, but t hop- you are not a fool.
What's the use of forcing me to ex
tremes? Not a dollar of this money
belongs to you. If you open the safe
we'll make an even divide of the
boodle, and I can leave you bound
and arrange things so ss to make it
look straight to outsiders."
"And I won't."
"Then I'll compel you by torture!
After I have buld u lighted cmidlo to
tho solos of your feet for rive minutes
I think you'll listen to reason. It is
now 8.45. I'll experiment on the com
bination for (1ft. -'ii minutes. If I bit
it, all right: if not, I'll find a way to
make you open the door!"
He knelt down in front of the safe
door, nml, of course, it was my object
to keep him there until the h-itids of
the clock pointed to 9 and Tom shot
the bolt. Neither one of us uttered a
word for live minutes. Thon I noticed
he was getting impatient and said :
"No doubt you'll hit the combina
tion in time, mid that will be bad fur
ut-!"
"How bad for you?" he queried.
"Why, even if you loavo mo bound
and gagged people will be suspicious
1h if it was a put-up job. If you had
been obliged to use powder mid drills
it would have been different."
"So you think I'll strike it, do you?"
"I hope not, but you go at it liko a
man who has been there boforo.
Where is Miss Haines?"
"Miss Haines? Ha! ha! hat Miss
Haines loft her kindest regards ami
said she might call again! (tood-look-ing
girl, eh?"
' I'll admit that, even though she
worked this job on me."
"Y'-o-s, g I looking girl and sharp
er than u steel trap. She thinks a
heap of that missing brother, Miss
Haines does! There! I think I've"
Ho thought he'd hit it, and he was
not fur out of the way, but it wasn't
tin) hit he was looking for. Brother
Tout was just a minute ahead of time
in shooting the bolt. The robber ut"
terod a shout and clutched at tho air
us ho went down, and his heels hud
scarcely disappeared when tho door
swung buck and I was making tremen
dous efforts to get my hands free.
They were tied ut the wrists, and bo
fore I hud loosened them I had rolled
over mid over on the floor to reach the
staples and the peg and make the door
fust. Three minutes later I had a free
hiud to cut the ropes binding my an
kles, It wasn't much of a fall through
the trap, but the robber struck on his
head und was stunned for a minute.
When he cume to ho began cursing iu
a way to make my hair stand up, but I
paid uo attention.
tie naa nrotigm two revolvers ana a
knife into the bunk, but ho hud tuke n
them off und laid them on a chiiir. I
picked up theso and left the place to
give tho ularm, and I have still another
confessiou to make to you. I kuew
that it was a put up job ull the way
through, und that "Miss Nellie Haines"
was a "pul" of the man under th
bunk floor. She was consequently a
wicked womuii und deserved no uieroy.
Cull nu u fool if you will, but I said
not a word to anybody w lieu I got
outside and made a . bee line for tho
hotel, Hlui whs iu the sitting-room
ready dressed to ride down to the do-
pot wheu it was time. She was alone,
and when I entered the room she ut
tered a little shriek ami almost fuintod.
"VV whero is is my brother?" she
dually asked as I stood before her,
"Safely trapped in tho bank," I an
swered. "Aud you have eoiuo to arrest me?'
no, i uavo oome 10 warn you
that you may save yourself. Have
you any money?"
"Not more than three or four dol
lars."
"Yon have $600 iu the safe. I had
forgotten about that, I will bring it
to you."
"Aud uiy my brother?''
"He will keep uutil yon are goun,
and then we'll take him out and send
him to jail."
I returned to the bank and got lift
money. I saw her take the hotel bus
to the depot. I waited until the train
hud come and gone, aud then I gave
the alarm, and got the robber out mid
jugged him. Later on he was scut to
prison for eight years, mid the woman
I have never heard of since. Why did
I let lu-r escape? Well, she whs a
handsome woman. That's the only
excuse I ever had. Chicago Times.
Pillar Hears Keep ('mil.
" It will surprise most people," said
Superintendent A. IC. Mrown, of the
Philadelphia zoological garden, to a
Record man, " to learn thut the polar
bear stands the hot weather of the dog
days iu this locality better than the
African lion, tin hot days the liou
will get off his feed i the polar bear
will not. The tropical animals iu the
garden, "coutinued the superintendent,
" are the ones mostly uffected by the
extreme heat of midsummer, strange
as it may appear. I suppose th
reason of it is that the heat here is
more moist th-in thafjof the tropics, and,
ns it were, of a differeut character.
Wh-itever mortality occurs among our
animals during a heated term is mostly
among the tropical auimuls, especially
the African, In hot weather I have
watched the polar bear go into his
tank, nnd theu, instead of lying in
thn shade, extend himself in the direct
rays of the sun, where tho water on
his skin would evaporate. He found
out for himself, I suppose, that evapo
ration causes a lower temperature.
Again, it is somewhat astonishing, at
first, that our polar bear should suffer
sometimes ns he does from the severe
cold of whiter. I have seen him
shivering on one of those bitterly rold
days, when the sky was overladen and
the air full of moisture. The moisture
was evidently what affected him. In
the Arctic regions it is so cold that the
moisture is frozen out of the nir.
Minis do not like the heat. It iniiki
them perch with drooped w ings. Jleut
affects not only the animals in the
garden but the rlumiees of the garden
itself. A difference of ten degrees iu
the thermometer, say if it is nineti-
Ave instead of eighty-rive, means a loss
of several hundreds of dollars in our
gate receipts for the day."
Toil Ooli't f.ot flic Cluck."
An old custom once prevailed iu u
remote place of giving a clock to any
one who would truthfully swear lie
had minded his own business alum
for a year ami a day, nml had Tint
meddled with his neighbors. Many
came, but few, if any, gained the prize,
which was more difficult to win than
the Dunmow flitch of bacon. Though
they swore on the four Oospels, mid
held out their hands iu certain hope,
some hitch was sun? to be found some
where ; and for all their asseverations
the clock remained stationary ou its
shelf, no one being able to prove his
absolute immunity from uncalled-for
interference in things not iu any wuy
concerning himself. At lust a young
man csme with a perfectly clean re
cord, and the clock seemed ns if it was
nt last about to change ow ners. Then
said the oustodiau, "Oh! a young
man was here yesterday, und made
mighty sure he was going to have the
clonk, but he didn't." Said the young
man seeking tho prize. " And why
didn't ho get it?" " What's that to
you?" snapped out the custodian ;
" that's not your business, und, you
don't got tho clock." New York Dis
patch. Early Mention of Niagara Falls,
The first historical notices of Niagara
Falls are giveu in Lesearbiit's record
of the second voyage of Jucipu-s dirtier,
iu the your I5:).. On the maps pub
lished to illustrate C'hninpluiii's discov
eries (date on mnps either HiMor lfil t)
the fulls aro indicated by a cross, but
no description of the wonderful cataract
is giveu, aud the best geographical
authorities living to-day doubt if tho
explorer mentioned ever saw the falls,
Brinson's work to the contrary not
withstanding. Father Hennepin is
believed to have written tho first do
aoriptiou of the fulls that was eve!
penned by ouo who had personally vis
itcd tho spot. The editor of "Note
for the Curious" owns a map, dated
1(157, which does not figure cither the
(Jreut Lukes or tho fulls. St. Louis
Kepublio.
A Rare World's Fair Souvenir.
Brown "I hear you havo been at
the Fair. I suppose you brought
home a souvenir?"
, Jones "You but I did aud a rare
one, too."
Brown "What was it?"
Jones "A dollar I took out with
me." fVuk
SOLDIEUS' COLUMN
SHARINO A BHIOADIEH.
Why Leaving One's Jsokst Open B
asms a 8rlom Offanse.
IV His Kprlne of
SjS 112 I n. II, 1st
a. j Mich. I v., wim
JS m J IbIIiI at Ixxiy.
(iisra to iirtsr
llpn. Crawford.
We thmmlit wa
wrs very fortu
nate, and that w
were In fur a
soft snap. Ths
riutles wers not
very eevere, ami
ths f'nnimiMiary
department wa
elwnys seceesllils
We hail In keep
riimeivaa and
equipment I n
Rood order and
carrv ouriiolve
so stiff and straight when rlditiR behind
Hie Ocneral that It nvda our backs at lie
Homo of the Infantry bova of that hri
Kade, In wrltinirof tlin-e times, even seem
ed u-i of wesrinn piir collars.
Amntm my tsrllesl recollections of per
sonal Intimacy with the lleneral was that
ol one morning when I wns pacing back
and forth In front of Headquarters tent
shout K o'clock as a sentrr. It was a beau
tiful morning Hardly a sound wai to lit
lirard, except from Inside the tent, from
wlinm e issued the melodious notes of on
of Hid heaviest anorers Hint I err cams
across. As the sky began to llitlit up with
the rising sun there wss a Utile slir about
tho lires, for Hi cooks were geltingto work.
The mules, too soke tip. anil by their tu
ninllu us tirsylng it wss quite evident that
they were ready for break Ust sIso.Anetfi'-er
approached th Oenerai's tent and tccosted
me.
'Is this Oen. Crawford's tent?''
"Yes, sir."
"Can I s,e Hie fletieral?"
''II Is asleep. Don't you hear him snor
ing "
"My!" laid fas, "lie a going it, ain't
lief '
After ll-tening lo Hie music awhile, h
aid: "Well, ihis won't do for nie. I have
got to hav tli liensrsl's signature to this
requisition befura the brigade tsn draw
radons "
Ho, thin' iug it a sham for one man to
sleep while Himi-nnds waited for fo- d. I
considered Hie orc-sslon aiilllcienily urgent
to venliir on waking him up. I took the
requisition In hit hniid and entered thntent.
There lay the lieneral on his cot. his big
nose showing up In bold relief as he by on
his back.
I rsllrd him gpiilly. "(ieneral! Oh. (ien
ml!" b'lt he was beyond calling. I put
my linnd ou liis shoulder and ruv liliu a
gentle ilinke. but he wss proof sgsuist
gentle shakes. Ho gave him s shake that
nearly ininletl him on tdo lloor.and iic-cced-d
in bringing him to a silting posture,
with a look of cnner exisx-taiicy. which was
succeeded by a look ofdiagust when I shove l
the requisition nt liim, snylng that there
was an olllrer out there wan ed it eigne I.
I'pcame his long, bony linger, and In a
very Impressive vulco he delivered himself
tli : nl v "Young man, never shake a llrl
gudier (ieneral. If any more (.Hirers coins
to see me. mp ou ths teut-posl until I iny,
"t oiiiii in."
It miikri mc smile yet to think what a
beautiful time I would have had waking
him tip by rapping on the Icnt-pole. Hut
the old fellow gut even with n later in the
day when my nett turn cams for -'entry
duty. The sun hs l got well up. und pacing
up and down in the sun in front of ths tent
was warm work. My tliiiituil-lined jacket
was buttoned up tight, with my sober-hell
hiicklni nu (inside, and everv bit of best in
my body bottled up tight and held in. It
occurred to nie that by buckling the belt
around my hips under the jacket and leav
ing the jacket open that It might make it
lightly mureendiirable. Hul I hadn't en
Joyed th cool breese under the jacket long
when I caught the old (ienerul's eve and
aw that he was l.rckonlii - in with Ins long
bony finger. I promptly stei pd up with a
flu military Julme. and waa told to go bark
to my qusriera and return pro erly equip
ped, which meant to button up my jacket
and buckle the belt outside, which I did.
and sweat out the balance of my two hours
ths bet way I could, counting every minute
when I was to be relieved,
Imagine bow happy I felt when th Corp
oral of the guard was coming to relieve me
to hear the lieneral ssy lo bim: "C'orporsl
1st this man carry a rail tliinugh th neit
re lef." Th Corporal was a real good fel
low, and selected the Ugliest one he could
find; but I tell you it was heavy enough be
fore 1 laid It down at the end of my two
hours, aud I was In a brown ttudy all th
time I was carrying it whether it was for
leaving mv jacket opon while on duty or for
baking a llrigadier. K. M. Vato.s, lo
"National Tribune.
OEN. ZOLLICOFFER'8 DEATH.
Personal Rsminiscenoe of the Adjutant
of th, 04th Ohio.
A few days sfter the battle of Mill .Springs
I was under medical treatment at a hotel in
lbanon, Ky., when a man atopped over
night at the same place. He was dreeietl in
citizen's cloths. and ept himself somewhat
secluded. 1 noticed lie carried a crooked
root nv or six feet long into bis room, ad
joining mine, and In doing so concealed it
sith tin cloak from those about him.
Us saw my curl' ally wai awakened, and
to forestall any further suspicions, asked nie
into hia room, and we struck up an airree
able friendship. Learning that I wss from
northern Ohio, he asid he h red in Fran-din.
Tenn . and hnd a partner in dentistry from
my own County, with whom I was well ac
quainted before the war. tie told me his
name was Clilt; that he was a Surgeon in
Zollinger's regiment, and that the queer
looking stick standing i.ear him he had dug
op when the (icni-ral fell from hn horse,
and that some of Zollicoffur'e life-blood was
un lbs root; that his remains were below,
locked In a safe place, and that he had them
in charge to take to Nashville.
Ilia version of the lieneral's death w.u
ubstantially as several others have given
it. He entoine I secrecy in what h told
me. as be feared relic-hunters would give
bim trouble.
It was at the house of this tame Dr. Cliff
that (iem. Schofield and htauley took a
Ihort nap and good dinner on the lOih of
November, I Hot. just before th desperate
battle of Franklin opened, and, aa Dr. HiM
retb, his partner, has said, wss as good a
Union man at heart si either of bis guests
that day.
Zolliuoffer stood very high in th estima
tion of the citizens of Nashville, had repre
muled them in Congress, and for year his
name bad became familiar to the reading
public, for it always appeared at the foot of
every recorded vote list in tba House. Ha
raised the regiment he commanded most
ly in his own city, and it was composed of
the very best of young men the (lit ol
ths town.
A Mrs. Johnston, ons year after, related
to me in very graphic language th effect
th news of the battle bed on ins people of
Nashville. It had been reported to them
that their boys were in ueed of warmer
clothing ahd better fare. They therefore
decided on a grand festival to be held at
the market house on th public square, where
vervbcsly was urged to bring In liberal con
tributions. Everybody wss enthusiastic.
Tli ladles were particularly efficient in
getting th long tables tastefully decorated
with Confederal emblems snd flags. Never
befor had there been so much spirit and
good-will shown as on Ibis occasion, Mrs.
J. said she started soon after sun-up on th
day set with a basket ot dishes to belp com
plete th arrangements. 8b had about four
squares to go. tib noticed that" thr were
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but few persnnf on ths street and these tho'
by her without looking up. , t .
It seemed to her that sometlilntf wa wron
and this sp rehenslon Increased every s en
riowell rou-rtnreil ss she befu'e she reached
ths mar1 et house that she observed severs!
groups of ssd fseea, and she rtsrert not listen
to And out whst wss the msitr. Wesk snd
trembling, she stinrnsehed sn old Methodist
minister, wneti she etclsimed:
"llmlher R . for Mod's ask tell tns
what's the matter with the people Hilt morn
ing.?" "Why. Sister Johnson, 7!otllrofTr l killed
nd his regiment all cut lo pieces,"
flhs sdded. "I wss so stunned I dropped
mv basket snd broke several dishes."
NoHc- srss given to (vervbodv to tak
back whst they Imd brought and almost
every family In Hie plac wnt home to
mourn for a dear friend; but bfor night
they got more authentic new) that then
boys, though badlv whipped, wer mostly
able to make good time to the rear.
Kvery veiersn knows bow long the bovs
will continue to repeat some word orprhase
that has no blstorlrsl signlflcaiics, such
"Orab a root," or "Here t yonr mule," but
ene expression heard everv day after Mill
rnring inour part ol the irmr wss this:
"Whst's th news'" "Ob! Zolllcoffer's
killed." C.
Woouacrr, in National Trl-
bun.
KEYSTONE STATE CULLING
SHPP-gl.l.tV(l DOdS
Oil. Citv Two dogs killed eight sheep
outright and mnngled twenty-three more in
h as than uu hour in Canal township ftotnr
day night. These dogs travel together only
' at night, and then only on sheep kilting
' raids, never having been seen together in
the day time. They have cost the farmers
of this part of the county hundreds of dol-
Isrs. The sheep last killed belonged to
aiiiM niu((irnii bhii r-iicr lll.lll lf -n.
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mobs flute, ovr.vs snitt now.
Uniostown .seventy more ovens wrs
rloM-d down at the liedsloue works of the
)I.C. Krlck Coke Company. Two moulds sgo
the entire to ovens st this works wers in
blast Now but 201 are burning, and
these ar liable to he blown out st stir
time.
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Rums finis sgo the llellefont council
decided Hist rows roil d no longtr rusi, th
street,. Suns, then, sisording to the
"Watch tn in." p'd.-strinnism Is much
ple:isantcr. The only trouhl-now Is that
persons i an Imnllv get nlong on scroti nt of
the crow Is i-f p-ettv girls. The IntliiintiuA
is plnin that the girls were afraid of thf
cows.
A llowrs-rrui mm drew his ssving,
from the Kitst National Hank of Home
stead when a rnu was started there by so e
Hungarians He kept the money at boms
until s thi'f found it, The thiol hss it now
snd Hie bank is still sound.
CiTiirntvg Siiixwv was buried Isst week
In llo'd Kagla cemetery, Hlair county. She
passed her futll birth-lav about two months
ago. For years siie hud boeti using her
third set of net i.
Nkirj If iiiitingdoii, steam ran a wsy with
sreat-r after sinking s hornets' nest. The
egi-l driver. John 11. Smith, was thrown in
front of Hie machine. be!iad l snd hor
ribly mutilu-e I.
Kk.wk Mil i i n. a young farmer of I'.rush
Valley township. Indians county, was kill
ed by the etplosiou of s gun while he was
lying In wait f--r -oine dos which hid kill
ed lot sheep.
Tur.Rr Is any amount of building goingon
in Johnstown tins summer, and among
other structures arc four hnnd-onio busi
ness blocss that will cost Joi,'ioii.
Cvi.vin Hviimis and Iteiiben f'aniphe'l. of
PtuliMow li. Westmoreland county, clsim lo
have the record on cradlitig oats. They cut
a lo at r field in one day.
.1 . Mrs TiionrK, an employe of tho I.ee
tonis Rollins mill tireetishiirg. was grind
ing a link, when the cmory wheel burst,
killing him in-loiitly.
I'.riin. .f.ivKs. aged II vears. was drowned
In I'ytiiatuniiiB creek, at UrangHville, near
Sharon, while bi lling witli some young
girl companion.
I. digging a well at Connellsville, em
ployes of th Columhia llrick Company,
discovered u human body snd a canoe both
petrified.
lioiirsr Atkinson's bsrn near West Over
ton, was burned with all bis crop, aggregat
ing a loss of 1,-Vin wuli no insurance,
Hrp.-ii.ies broke Into the bom of Fred
erick l.ong in Mechjiitcsiiurg and after
ru iisiu king burned ii to tho ground.
Tim mother of negro West. who murderer!
the 'much family iu Washington county,
was found dead ill bal.
Tiik Ixbunoii Trust snd Safe Derosit
llsnk failed. It is a tftuto '.nuiti.tloii with
a capiisl of Jo i,").
Tnr. Scr.-inton Inc- factory lias lempor
ardy sn-iH-inled operations, throwing out
about Uu people.
.IrssK Hi xr was crushed to death under a
red hot damper in th Arcthua Iron Works
at New Castle.
r.NioNTowx is taking on eity sirs snd is
tslking about putting up a J0,0 I) nata
lorium. I-'Anwms near Oil City, ure turning hogs
into their blackberry patches to rid out ths
snakes.
If CNTiM-isiv county i overrun with grs-is
hoppers which are p iiyiug havoc with tl.e
crops
Orasshoppf-rs have dons great dsma? to
croiis around Ktie.
WEEKLY CHOP REPORT.
The General Drouth Hard on Vgta
tion.
The weekly crop report issued at Washing
ton, says: Drouth conditions are now
general in the central valleys, northwestern
tales and in portion! of tlie middle Atlantic
Itates and lake region, and its erTects ace
reported as more or less damaging iu Illinois.
"A'lsconsin, Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan and
the Dukotas. Tbsre has been too much
rain fur cotton in portions of Alabama and
Mississippi, but in South Carolina and Teias,
except in southwest portion, th erop is
greatly improved. Cotton picking is now
progressing in Georgia and Florida. 8pring
wheat harvest is now progressing in Wiacon.
in, Minnesota and tb Dakota.
Upon th whole It may be atsted that ths
weather conditions have been beneficial to
crops in New England, portions of the Mid-
dls Atisntic stales and generally throughout
tns ooutnern states, wnue throughout ths
central valley, Northwest and lake region
the week has been unfavorable owing to
lac i ol moisture. Tbs week wss generally
luvorable ou tbs Pacitio coast, although ia
I aliforiiia the warm weather ovsr tb in
terior of the state caused fruit to ripen too
rapidly.
in i'snnsylvsnia In most places drouth
reni'inu unbroken; all crops will be short
ened, especially tobacco and potatoes
In West Virginia Corn improved con
siderably; plowing for fall wheat progress
ing; weather favorable; tobacco, buckwheat
and stock doing well.
In Oh io Corn, potato, tobaooo and past
ures suffering trotn drouth; wheat sad oats
threshing continues; good yield; ground too
bard to plow.